Peter Bergman (Firesign Theatre) dead at 72

Peter Bergman, a co-founder of the offbeat Los Angeles comedy troupe Firesign Theatre and host of the late-night KPFK-FM radio program, â€œRadio Free Oz,â€ has died. He was 72.
Bergman died Friday, according to an announcement on the Firesign Theatre website. He had leukemia.

Bergman & Proctor and The Firesign Theatre were the first comedy albums I ever actually paid full price for.
Their Don't Crush That Dwarf Hand Me The Pliers was the greatest fucking album ever released by a comedy group: